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...school's top painters-Cole, Asher Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Thomas H. Hinckley-were all represented in last week's New Hampshire show, for they all painted the White Mountains as well as the Catskills. Winslow Homer, one of the very few geniuses in the history of American painting, added his fellow artists to one New Hampshire scene to produce the small canvas (see cut) that was easily the best picture in the show...
Stop the Train. The Hudson River school suffered from a passion for the picturesque. Cole's The Pass Called "The Notch of the White Mountains" is a brilliant picture marred by Wagnerian theatrics and stage lighting. Asher Durand's White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch sacrifices sharpness to size. He assumed such a grand scene should be painted in the grand manner; the result is sentimental, vague and declamatory. Perhaps the poets of the age did such artists more harm than good; told that nature was simply grand, painters inclined to view her through a haze...
...they succeeded in communicating their awe to contemporaries, did much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...
...GILBERT DURAND...
...Eakins was a force, George Inness was just a gentle spirit. Epileptic and almost entirely self-taught, he lived in the shadow of such showy Hudson River school painters as Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Inness preferred for subject matter the limited, charming sort of view that his studio window in Montclair, N.J. commanded. His wish, he said, was to paint not the melodramatic panoramas then in fashion, but "civilized landscape." By "civilized," some said, he meant simply "well-pruned." Still, in age, Inness began to have a little success. Today the modesty of his art seems...